Häagen-Dazs Artisan - Ginger Molasses Cookie

Ginger Molasses Cookie - Vanilla Cinnamon Ice Cream with Ginger Molasses Cookie Pieces

Next we review one of the flavors from Häagen-Dazs' Artisan line: Ginger Molasses Cookie.  For each flavor in the Artisan line, Häagen-Dazs commissioned a different independent specialty baker to design a flavor.  This Ginger Molasses Cookie flavor was designed by Anna Gordon of The Good Batch bakery in Brooklyn.

Opening the pint, I see a pale beige color of the vanilla cinnamon base with some of the cookie pieces evident even on the very top.  Digging in, the cinnamon flavor in the base was quite noticeable and the cookie pieces revealed themselves and were fairly numerous.  There was quite a bit of a kick to the ginger cookies.  As we saw with the Spiced Pecan Turtle flavor, the artisan line does not hold back with the spices.  It wasn't too much while I was eating it, but feeling of ginger lingered on my teeth for an hour afterwards (that's not a complaint, I kind of like that).  There was something a bit odd about the vanilla cinnamon base, though.  It tasted alright but the texture stayed tough and crumbly almost all the way down to the bottom of the pint.  I don't know if that was an issue with my particular pint (was it melted and refrozen) or a general characteristic of this flavor.  I'm not sure.

So, not quite a completely successful pint.  It was spicy enough but if the base had the softer texture of the Cinnamon Buns flavor then I would have enjoyed it a lot more.